New video card installed, can't find network card

ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

I've been using Gentoo for awhile on my old computer and decided to install an old video card I just took out of my other computer. It is a GeForce 4 MX 440-SE, 64mb ddr, pci card (sure beats the intel chipset i've been using).

Anyway, I installed the card in the third pci slot on my motherboard and i didn't get any video output (from neither the card nor the chipset), so i decided to take out the old 56k modem card that was in slot 1 and try the video card there. oddly, it worked. i reconfigured xfree86 and everything appeared to be working fine.

When I restarted the computer, everything initilized except netmount:

adaptr · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

Does the BIOS see the card at all ?
Run lspci or dmesg to find out.
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ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

PCI Video Cards have been known to "cheat" the PCI bus and screw with other PCI devices, Why aren't you using an aGP card?
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ryan.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

adaptr · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:

Short of trying every possible combination of cards and slots - no.
As you say, it won't work unless the video card is in the first PCI slot, so you're pretty much stuck to that....
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